The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 37
Little Lasse thought, perhaps, that no one saw him; but that was foolish, for God sees everywhere.
Who acts: Little Lasse, one, that, God · What happens: think, see, be · To what, where: Lasse
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse, one, that, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lasse | amod |
| 2 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perhaps | punct |
| 5 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 saw | mark |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 foolish | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 foolish | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 foolish | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 foolish | cop |
| 16 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sees | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 sees | mark |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sees | nsubj |
| 20 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 foolish | conj |
| 21 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 sees | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Little Lasse | perhaps property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | no one | Lasse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | present | God | everywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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